linux-kernel - Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} _

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Message-ID: <20080501232116.GD4354@smtp.west.cox.net>
Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 16:21:16 -0700
From:	Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, bunk@...nel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com
Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:42:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

[snip]
> Is there some vaguely maintainable workaround we can do?  If the problem
> only affects completely-empty weak functions then we could put something in
> them to make them non-empty?

My memory is a tiny bit hazy (it was a while ago), but no, it's not just
empty functions (again, I _think_ I hit it with a generic vs arch weak
function).

-- 
Tom Rini
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